News that sounds like sci-fi: Death by brain-eating amoeba.
The Trouble With Tribbles, as adapted by Edward Gorey.
Only in Japan: the butler cafe and the keyboard bra.
Use your computer’s spare processing power to help cure cancer. (You can organize your efforts into teams, too – there’s a Colbert group, but it has no members. Me, I’m on the Gay & Lesbian Grid.)
And, for something recent: The Story of Doctor Who, a talk on the making of the series from BBC Radio 7.
Fake News/Strangers With Candy
Why Should I Care?, part 7 (fic | Seamus/George, Jon/Stephen | PG)
Fake News
The WØRD: Move On, Finally, Jon Stewartized, Simple (illustrated ficlets | Stephen, the bullet | PG)
The Many Faces of Colbert (art | Stevie, Stephen, Stephen, Stephen, Tek Jansen, Raven, Stephen, Stephen, Stephen Jr., Stephen, Esteban, Stephen, Stephen, the God Machine | worksafe)
Hellsing/R.O.D/Witch Hunter Robin/Madeline/Little Orphan Annie
The World According To Shine (art | Integra, Enrico, Major, Joker, Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, Robin Sena, ??? | worksafe)
Next Week in Shine:
Guns, guns, and more guns, plus the obligatory “size of that thing” jokes.
Website Updates
More You Know You Like Hellsing Too Much When…
(Ganked from here.)
This is gorgeous. Classic Hellsing, with a healthy dose of OTPness. Color me delighted.
Fake News/Strangers With Candy
Why Should I Care?, part 6 (fic | Seamus/George | PG-13)
You Look So Good In Blue (art | Seamus/George, drag | worksafe)
Fake News
Vintage – Birthday Colbert (art | Stephen, bonus!hidden!Jon | worksafe)
The Robert Report illustrations (art | Bobby, Stephen, Tad, ghost!Jon, ensemble | worksafe)
It’s Not A F@#king Game (mix | Jon, Jim Cramer | language)
Expecting illustrations, part I and part II (art | Jon/Stephen, ensemble | worksafe)
Hellsing
The Man With The Knife (mosaic | Anderson | worksafe)
Next Week in Shine:
Our heroes meet Ann, and get ready to go shopping.
Torture. We did it. Be squicked.
People who fall in love with buildings. (The whole documentary is on YouTube.)
Why jokes are hard to remember. (…they are?)
TCR’s going to the Persian Gulf. Color me awed.
People can now filter our news based on their own opinions, which has a polarizing effect. (I’m still not watching the O’Reilly Factor, though.)
Japan’s three new ambassadors: cute girls in moe-moe clothing. And there’s a new hentai manga starring Barack Obama. ILU, Japan. Never change.
For those afraid to catch up on RaceFail, there’s a nice summary here with large friendly letters. And for a much broader view, here’s how it fits into the whole history of the genre and the industry.
(Also worth a read: Fandom is in Yelling Class.)
Memories about Barbie as related to growing up through the Iranian revolution.
The era of getting distracted by Culture War Issues seems to have ended. Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief.
And, to round this out on a fluffy note, have a gallery of successful trans women. (The vast majority of them are also incredibly hot.)
Doctor Who/Fake News
George’s World, one, two, three, four, five (fic | Ten’n'Jack, ickle!Stephen, Expectingverse!Stephen, George | PG)
Little Orphan Annie
Miss Ann Warbucks (art | Annie, Sandy | worksafe)
General
but don’t talk about revolution (a mix for RaceFail ‘09)
Next Week in Shine:
Enrico takes us through the fate of the Axis vampire research divisions at the end of the war.
If you think that anyone can be guilty of making a racist comment or performing a racist act, including you, and that you are willing to take ownership of your statements and actions, resist blaming the person who was offended, figure out why they were taken as racist, apologize, and not do it again, post this exact sentence in your journal.
If you haven’t been following RaceFail ‘09, start here.
I’ve been hesitant to post about this because I’m pretty sure Clueless White Girl #5,264,592 does not have much to add to the discussion. But here’s one thing I think bears saying. Racism isn’t necessarily the overt Hairspray-style “white people and black people shouldn’t swim in the same pools!” nastiness. Racism can show up when you have a comic with an international cast of dozens and there’s only one recurring black guy. Whose name has yet to be mentioned in-strip. (It’s Bob.)
And before you say “but it’s a fancomic, and that’s just how the canons are” – (a) most of the OCs have been white, so I’m still not off the hook, and (b) what does that say about the canons?
ETA, having seen some people gripe about an Internet meme being a shallow response to a serious problem: Here are real-life things you can do. Poke around the links to this stuff for a while, and you will find yet more lists of things you can do. I’ll be snagging ideas from them, and working on the issues mentioned above, and on a basic level will not be Deeply Offended if you mention that perhaps some of my writing is not perfect. Y’all are enthusiastically invited to join in.
Oh, if anybody has awesome CoCs they’d like to see brought into Shine, I am totally open to recommendations.
Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space came in first in the Classic Who: Crossover category at the Children of Time Awards!
(Yeah, yeah, I know, controversial contest, problematic procedures, furious fandom fistfights, blah blah blah. It still means a bunch of people liked the story enough to vote for it. Let me enjoy the compliment.)
Whatever Happened To Susan Foreman?, a highly tongue-in-cheek BBC audio AU about the disgruntled further adventures of the Doctor’s disappeared granddaughter.
Minesweeper: The Movie. This trailer is EPIC. I’d watch it.
Speaking of epic, check out The Mother Of All Trailers.
United Deities left traumatised by Bush/Blair axis of confusion. Worth reading for the phrase “clever-ass, four-armed nerd goddess” alone.
